It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using … the European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data for 7 EU countries from 2004 to 2013, we …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …

income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals … maximisation objective of economic evaluation. Aversion to health inequality is even stronger when it is related to income. However …, the median person prioritises health of poorer individuals less than is assumed in the standard measure of income …

. The outcomes of these lotteries create inequalities of opportunity that can translate into disparities in health and … socioeconomic status. Here, we estimate a lower bound for the relevance of these two lotteries for differences in education, income …

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care … utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self …-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we find that …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …

, administrative tax records, and national account aggregates. It assembles comprehensive data on formal income for high-income … percent of the total income over the period, placing Honduras among the most unequal countries in the world. Undistributed … corporate profits are the overwhelming income source at the very top of the distribution, highlighting its importance in the …

We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … our genetic score and socioeconomic outcomes is causal, (ii) genetic luck for higher income is linked with better health … the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of individual income, using data from individuals of European ancestries …